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Grateful Dead Live at Boston Garden on 1981-03-12

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1981-03-12 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Audience, FOB, Steve Rolfe, Charlie Miller

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Set 1

Jack Straw
Tennessee Jed
Mama Tried ->
Mexicali Blues
Bird Song
C C Rider
Althea
Let It Grow ->
Franklin's Tower

Set 2

Terrapin Station ->
Playing In The Band ->
He's Gone ->
Drums ->
Space ->
Not Fade Away ->
Black Peter ->
Around And Around ->
Johnny B. Goode

Encore
U.S. Blues

Notes

Patch Info:
Sony ECM-280 -> Cassette Master -> Dat -> CD (shnid=3307) supplies:
Drums (3:34 - 3:43)

Notes:
-- Set 2 is seamless
-- Thanks to Steve Rolfe for lending me his masters

Addeddate: 2008-10-11 05:04:21

Identifier: gd1981-03-12.nak700.rolfe.miller.95243.sbeok.flac16

Lineage: Cassette Master (Nakamichi DR-1) -> Sound Devices 744T (24bit/96k) -> Samplitude Professional v10.1 -> FLAC/16

Location: Boston, MA

Run time: 162:34.24

Source: (FOB) Nakamichi 700 -> Cassette Master (Sony D5/Maxell UDXL-IIS)

Taped by: Steve Rolfe

Transferred by: Charlie Miller

Type: sound

Venue: Boston Garden

Year: 1981

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Reviewer: ErikWHamden83 - - March 13, 2020
Subject: great example

Mahalo to Steve Rolph for sending his audience masters to Charlie Miller! Great example of how using microphones from the floor to capture the music was sometimes superior to soundboard. On this particular evening Jerry really bent the strings, and this recording really lets you feel it!

Reviewer: kbmill - - June 29, 2015
Subject: bread crumb

This is the only time Let it Grow > Franklin's Tower was played. In the fall of 1977 the two songs were played in this order, but there is a break between them.

Weirdest pairing with Let it Grow? In 1989, Let it Grow > US Blues, to end the first set.

Seems like about half of the time, once Let it Grow began to stand on its own, it was the walk-off moment for the first set - that classic Bobby "We're gonna take a short break and be back in a little bit." The rest of the time Jerry asserts himself and ends the set with a Deal, a Don't Ease Me In, or something along those lines.

Reviewer: JamsOnly - - May 24, 2015
Subject: Boston

Highlights: Playing In The Band, He's Gone, Black Peter

Reviewer: clementinescaboose - - January 22, 2014
Subject: Some great tunes tucked away here, 1st set especially nice.

The second set of this show hasn't really grabbed me thus far, but I had to do a shout out for the wild Franklin's Tower that ends set one - holy shit - Jerry goes absolutely ballistic on the final jam! The preceding LIG is no slouch either, and there's also a very well played Bird Song earlier in the set, keeping with the motif of fantastic versions from March '81.

Reviewer: sourkrout - - January 21, 2014
Subject: Nice show, nice sound

This is a fine show. Great recording. Love this era.

Reviewer: wishy9 - - January 7, 2014
Subject: best sorce for this show

Really good underrated show. Best sounding source also. The Playin in set 2 is awesome, as is the Let it Grow--Franklins in set 1.

Reviewer: GratefulRob - - December 13, 2012
Subject: Sweet and high energy show.

This was my first show. I was fourteen and had never listened to the dead before. I had a fantastic time, but at the time didn't appreciate how sweet and subtle and rocking music could be at the same time. Listen.

Reviewer: StanleeMouse - - April 27, 2012
Subject: Grate Sound!

THANKS AGAIN CHARLIE FOR ALLLL YOUR HARD WORK. You really have made Searching for the sound that much more enjoyable!

Reviewer: Puch - - February 14, 2011
Subject: wow!

fantastic show....sound is superb, but the band, wow, fast, fast, fast.

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